36 Hours

[poliphilo]

The night before last I kept waking up to discover I'd forgotten to breathe and needed to rectify the mistake pretty damn quick. Stupid old body.

Yesterday I spent in a reclining armchair watching stuff on TV. I watched Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix- a turbo-charged account of a leisurely novel- and the last three episodes of the BBC's new Torchwood series- which more than fulfilled the promise of the first two by turning all political and state-of-the-nationy. Russel T. Davies is a classic writer. He's produced a lot of tosh- much of it in the first two seasons of Torchwood- but when he gets things right he's outstanding.  Torchwood: Children of Men is a masterpiece- bitter, shaming, heartening, kinky, sentimental, morally challenging, subversive- also very exciting and funny.

 Last night I slept for 12 hours straight.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think you were reading too much into it. I think it was Davies' intention to smuggle a deadly serious moral conundrum onto primetime TV under the guise of a sci-fi yarn. The bravest thing was the lack of an easy solution. The politicians were prepared to sacrifice the innocent, but so was our "hero".

[wokenbyart.livejournal.com]

Glad it's not just me. Thanks.

Our 'hero' was a bit of wimp at the end... (beam me up scotty!)

I'm adding you, btw... I keep meaning to, but my memory is like a sieve these days. You used to be on my flist when I previously had an LJ... I left 'cos of the Russians' but returned - with an art journal - cos I realised I'd overreacted! I was originally 'fickleasever'. I'm not as fickle these days!
;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I remember you under your old name.

It's good to have you around.

Your art journal is fascinating. I've friended you back.